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<blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 8277416" data-attributes="member: 15700"><p>My experience: almost all of my 5e gameplay is between levels 1-12. One campaign went to 15, but the vast majority caps out at level 12 or so.</p><p></p><p></p><p>What I've seen at my tables, is that in the combat tier, it's the martials who seem to dominate most of the time. A lot depends on scenario (the more encounters you have per adventuring the day, the more martials appear to have the advantage, while short encounter days the casters do well).</p><p></p><p>I fully admit that in our games, coming from an old school background, rests are harder to come by. Once monsters are alerted, they will act accordingly. That means they leave their encounter areas to go look for who just invaded their dungeon/castle/fort. These leads to several encounters per adventuring day, and thus helps the martials.</p><p></p><p>Ironically, almost all of the PCs I have played have been casters. The two highest were (level 15 tempest cleric and level 12 shadow sorcerer). Casters <em>can </em>dominate, but so much of it depends on pure luck. Did I happen to have the right spells prepared? How were the dice gods to me? Spells are very limited in resource, so if I blow my one 5th level spell and they make their save... </p><p></p><p>It was my cleric, not my sorcerer, who was the best in combat (spiritual weapon + spirit guardians + heavy armor) on a consistent basis. My sorcerer was either good, or bad, depending on the aforementioned luck.</p><p></p><p>The other casters in the various campaigns have had similar experiences.</p><p></p><p>Martials on the other hand, especially rogues (like the swashbucker or assassin) and rangers (even if they don't use their spells, like the gloomstalker with SS feat) are dishing out tons of damage nearly every round. The campaign we're close to wrapping up now (they are level 9), the swashbuckler is by far the biggest damage dealer. Barbarians never go down. Ever. While their damage is respectable (especially with GWM), it's their high HP and damage reduction that makes them dominate in combat because they <em>just keep going</em> and lock down opponents who <em>don't </em>want an AoO on them...</p><p></p><p>So in my experience, at levels 1-12ish, it's the martials who consistently shine in combat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sacrosanct, post: 8277416, member: 15700"] My experience: almost all of my 5e gameplay is between levels 1-12. One campaign went to 15, but the vast majority caps out at level 12 or so. What I've seen at my tables, is that in the combat tier, it's the martials who seem to dominate most of the time. A lot depends on scenario (the more encounters you have per adventuring the day, the more martials appear to have the advantage, while short encounter days the casters do well). I fully admit that in our games, coming from an old school background, rests are harder to come by. Once monsters are alerted, they will act accordingly. That means they leave their encounter areas to go look for who just invaded their dungeon/castle/fort. These leads to several encounters per adventuring day, and thus helps the martials. Ironically, almost all of the PCs I have played have been casters. The two highest were (level 15 tempest cleric and level 12 shadow sorcerer). Casters [I]can [/I]dominate, but so much of it depends on pure luck. Did I happen to have the right spells prepared? How were the dice gods to me? Spells are very limited in resource, so if I blow my one 5th level spell and they make their save... It was my cleric, not my sorcerer, who was the best in combat (spiritual weapon + spirit guardians + heavy armor) on a consistent basis. My sorcerer was either good, or bad, depending on the aforementioned luck. The other casters in the various campaigns have had similar experiences. Martials on the other hand, especially rogues (like the swashbucker or assassin) and rangers (even if they don't use their spells, like the gloomstalker with SS feat) are dishing out tons of damage nearly every round. The campaign we're close to wrapping up now (they are level 9), the swashbuckler is by far the biggest damage dealer. Barbarians never go down. Ever. While their damage is respectable (especially with GWM), it's their high HP and damage reduction that makes them dominate in combat because they [I]just keep going[/I] and lock down opponents who [I]don't [/I]want an AoO on them... So in my experience, at levels 1-12ish, it's the martials who consistently shine in combat. [/QUOTE]
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